beef tea
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Referring to the beef tea some fans would drink at half-time, he said it was "a long-ball world of Bovril, packed terraces and Northern rain... with supporters watching fantastic footballers with equally fabulous haircuts".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2021
As well as enforced seclusion, she was placed on a regime of weight gain; four or five pints of milk daily, as well as cutlets, liquid malt extract and beef tea.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 13, 2015
This is what your white-suited caregivers serve, just before dinner on special occasions, when they allow you something livelier than beef tea.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2013
Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, “I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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